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Safe, Sound and Green Streets
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Safety
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Street Maintenance
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Bridge Maintenance
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Environmental Conservation
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The Safe, Sound and Green Streets Proposal was conceived to address longstanding transportation safety and maintenance issues in the City of Portland. The proposal will achieve the following...
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Make your streets safer by:
• Providing safety fixes at high-crash intersections
• Building sidewalks on arterial streets that currently lack them
• Constructing pedestrian islands that make crossing the street to schools, parks and stores in your neighborhood easier and safer
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Improve the quality of your streets by:
• Repairing most of the roads currently in poor condition on Portland's busiest streets
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Improve our bridges (none of which cross the Willamette River) by:
• Maintaining the bridges and eliminating weight restrictions on freight and emergency routes
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Conserve our environment by:
• Reducing congestion on Portland's busiest roads by improving signal timing and operations
• Promote incentives for reducing the number of drive alone trips taken within the city
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Improve the economy:
• This proposal received widespread support.
• Our business communities endorsed this proposal recognizing that our State's economy is at risk because of our failure to invest in our infrastructure.
• Our neighborhoods want safety improvements so that seniors can access transit and children can safely walk or bike to school.
• Several of Portland's newspapers endorsed the Safe, Sound and Green Streets Proposal
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Click here for a list of organizations and publications that have endorsed Safe, Sound and Green Streets.
| Proposal |
| Learn about the proposal endorsed by the 89-person stakeholder committee and view the budget and project maps. |
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| In Your Neighborhood |
| View specific safety and maintenance projects that could be completed in your neighborhood if we generate additional funding. |
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| History |
| Learn why the transportation system is in disrepair. |
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| How can you help? |
| Learn ways to get involved in supporting the Safe, Sound and Green Streets Proposal. |
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